Pop culture and this year’s crop of Hollywood action hero films are poised to be big influences this Halloween, with Donald Trump, Star Wars and Superheroes characters listed as the most popular or the most-searched for Halloween costumes for 2015, according to data compiled by Google Trends. But unicorns were the most popular Halloween costume …

My friends Audrey and Brendon enjoy Halloween. A LOT. When Audrey found out she was pregnant, she confessed she had a plan to make her baby’s first Halloween extra-memorable: Every day for the month of October, she planned to dress her little bundle of joy in a different Halloween costume then post the pictures to her Instagram account. …

If it’s fall, it’s the season for H&M’s annual designer guest collaboration: Cue the budget fashionistas already contemplating how early to camp out in line for the Nov. 5 release. This year, the fast fashion giant partners with Parisian house Balmain for men’s and women’s collections designed by Olivier Rousteing. Rousteing is one of the youngest designers ever …

New faces, new ideas and a new fashion direction at Gucci were the inspiration behind a dinner for high-powered group of women last night at newish restaurant Octavia. The occasion? The fall collection from new creative director Alessandro Michele, who has brought his dreamy, bohemian point of view to the season. Hosts Jessica Silverman, Sabrina Buell and …

In a fashion week were the jarring, the sliced, the unfinished and the brutal made frequent appearances (see Proenza Schouler for all the above), Ralph Lauren stuck to what he does best: Creating elegant, wearable and, yes, beautiful clothes. Lauren looked to the world of sailing for spring 2016 and his dockside collection was one of his …

Some fashion collections are filled with easy, wearable pieces that could walk right off the runway and into your closet with very little fuss. Then there are the collections that are so outrageous, so unexpected, and so dramatic that you have to wonder just how the pieces will translate in real life. Sometimes, these are the most …

Max Osterweis and Erin Beatty of Suno have always offered clothes with a conscience and a distinct point of view. Beatty once described the brand’s target demographic as “the bohemian overachiever” and this season’s woman was no different. The first clue of the collection’s DNA came in the form of jungle-gym, tinker toy-like set pieces that reoccurred …

Music has always been an important part of Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s fashion shows at Rodarte, and this season was no exception. Backstage, the Mulleavys related to press that they spent the summer listening to the 1970s synthesized sounds of Electric Light Orchestra and reading the poetry of Leonard Cohen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson — when they …